December 18th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join poet Meghan Sterling and seven Kinship photographers as they explore the ways that ekphrastic poetry can deepen our relationship with our own photographs and photography practice. While ekphrastic poetry is often defined as the writing of poetry about works of visual art, the tradition is truly focused on the close observation of objects and experiences. This makes ekphrastic poetry a beautiful venue for deepening one’s relationship to one’s photographs.

December 11th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Over seven meetings, this practice group explored relationships surrounding a focus of their choosing, considering physical, emotional and visual contexts, and responding to unexpected disruptions.Fungi, trails, trees, and other plants led to new ways of thinking about and sharing nature’s intelligence, empathy, and connections.

November 6th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

In this practice group, participants explored the feelings of place. Guided by Trebbe Johnson, practice group participants worked with hyperawareness (or “fierce consciousness”) to more deeply explore the reactions that places stirred in them. Together they opened the lenses of their imaginations and emotional bodies to contemplate the profound relationships they have with locations that they hold and are held by them—creating images that reveal a powerful, often mysterious, and always intimate world.